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Journal Entry:

What are the four major properties of water? What about water's structure leads to those properties?

Learning Intentions

• You can identify the properties of water that support life on Earth and explain how they contribute to survival of life on Earth.

• You can make connections between waters structure and the properties that arise from that structure.

• You can create a drawing to represent water's structure and each property of water that arises due to that structure.

• You can explain your drawings in writing about how they represent the structure of water and each property.

Closing Task:

You can create a comic strip to display the four major properties of water that give rise to life on Earth.

Content Standards being covered:

Learning Objective
SYI-1.A Explain how the properties of water that result from its polarity and hydrogen bonding affect its biological function

Science Practice
2.A   Describe characteristic of a biological concept, process or model represented visually.

Habits of Mind/Life skills being covered:

Applying past knowledge to new situations.

Responding with Wonderment and Awe